tick

Plural: ticks

Noun

• a metallic tapping sound
  • "he counted the ticks of the clock"
• any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
• a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
• a light mattress
• A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
• A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
• A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
• A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
• A short period of time, particularly a second.
• A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
• Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
• A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
• A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
• A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
• A tap or light touch.
• A slight speck.
• Ticking.
• A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
• Credit, trust.
• A goat.

Verb

Verb Forms: ticked, ticking, ticks

• To make a regular, soft clicking sound.
• make a clicking or ticking sound
  • "The clock ticked away"
• make a sound like a clock or a timer
  • "the clocks were ticking"
• sew
  • "tick a mattress"
• put a check mark on or near or next to
  • "tick off the items"
• To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
• To make a tick or checkmark.
• To work or operate, especially mechanically.
• To strike gently; to pat.
• To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
• To go on trust, or credit.
• To give tick; to trust.

Examples

• At midday, the long bond is up a tick.
• He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
• I wonder what makes her tick.
• I'll be back in a tick.
• Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
• The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
• The timer began to TICK loudly, urging him to make a quick move.
• Tickhill, Tickham, Ticknock, Tickenhall Drive, Tickenhill Manor, Tickenhurst

Synonyms

beat, check, check mark, check off, click, mark, mark off, retick, tick off, ticking, ticktack, ticktock, New York minute, New York second, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, checkmark, crack, credit, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, no time, sec, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tic, tick, trice, trust, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while

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